. The American entomologist. Entomology. 34 THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGIST. covered in the Tertiaries of our western Territories are proving to be wonderfully rich in number of species and condition of preservation. From a single small basin exposed by a railway cut in the vicinity of Green River Station, Union Pacific Rail- road, in Wyoming, Mr. S. H. Scudder in Fossil Insects of the Green River Shales (Bull. U. S. Surv. Terr., iv, No. 4, pp. 747-776) enumerates eighty species, representing all the orders of the Insecta except Lepidoptera. An idea of the richness of these beds ma
. The American entomologist. Entomology. 34 THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGIST. covered in the Tertiaries of our western Territories are proving to be wonderfully rich in number of species and condition of preservation. From a single small basin exposed by a railway cut in the vicinity of Green River Station, Union Pacific Rail- road, in Wyoming, Mr. S. H. Scudder in Fossil Insects of the Green River Shales (Bull. U. S. Surv. Terr., iv, No. 4, pp. 747-776) enumerates eighty species, representing all the orders of the Insecta except Lepidoptera. An idea of the richness of these beds may be obtained from the statement, that a two hours' search was rewarded by the collection of fifty new species. We are glad to learn that Mr. Scudder is engaged upon a general work on our fossil insects, which will form one of the volumes of the quarto reports of the Hayden Survey—the beautiful typography and illustration of which causes us to regret the prospective speedy termi- nation of the series. As the Tertiary Shales of the Rocky Mountain region give every promise of being richer in insect remains than any other country in the world, the material for this volume will be more ample than any other student in fossil entomology has been able to command. For the evident omission of reference to much valuable work done during the period reviewed, I ask indulgence. The time that I had allotted to the preparation of my sketch was found, too late, to be quite insufficient for the extended bio- graphical examinations required for even an approach to completeness. I offer it only as a partial sketch, and as such please accept it. Statistics gathered for the forthcoming annual report of the New-Jersey Labor Bureau include reports from sixty-seven silk mills, mostly in Paterson. The Pat- erson mills alone employ 10,000 hands, besides from 2,000 to 3,000 employed in their own homes. The annual production of these mills reaches the total of $14,- 000,000.—Scientific American. It is
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